IDC says that 1.2 billion workers were using mobile devices at the end of 2013. If there was a battle about whether or not mobile devices were welcome in the workplace, the war is over and users won. In fact, IDC says that the adoption of mobile technology is moving at unprecedented speeds, putting the needs and experience of end users at the forefront of any company's mobile enterprise strategy.

According to Gartner, nearly 2.2 billion smartphones and tablets will be sold to end users in 2014. And it’s a good bet that most of them will wind up housing at least some data that belongs to the device owner’s employer.

This week, Gartner released the 2014 Magic Quadrant results in the new Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) category. In past years, Gartner called this category “MDM”, or mobile device management, and the name change signals Gartner’s view that the category has evolved from a point solution to a more comprehensive platform.